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OCLC Exposes Bibliographic Works Data as Linked Open Data

February 25, 2014September 4, 2020 - by Roy Tennant

Today in Cape Town, South Africa, at the OCLC Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional Council (EMEARC) Meeting, my colleagues Richard Wallis and Ted Fons made an announcement that should make …

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The Most Edited Book Records in WorldCat

February 7, 2014October 12, 2020 - by Roy Tennant

In my last post I identified the most edited records in WorldCat, which, no surprise, were all serials. Someone who read the post asked about this information by format (e.g., …

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The Most Edited Records in WorldCat

January 30, 2014August 25, 2020 - by Roy Tennant - 3 Comments.

Recently I’ve been doing a large pile of data processing jobs that has me working in cycles of 20 minutes or so. In other words, I do some edits, kick …

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The Most Used English Title Words in WorldCat

January 3, 2014August 25, 2020 - by Roy Tennant

This is another installment in my continuing series of eclectic, peripatetic, and yes, let’s just say it: “pathetic” data investigations. The most recent identified the top countries of publication for …

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Countries of Publication in WorldCat

December 10, 2013October 12, 2020 - by Roy Tennant

I’m a data geek. I just love processing data in various ways to see what I can find out. So recently I decided to look into the countries of publication …

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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Renovating Descriptive Practice

Visualizations of MARC Usage

December 2, 2013 - by Roy Tennant

As part of my work to reveal exactly how the MARC standard has been used over the several decades it has existed (available at “MARC Usage in WorldCat”), I’ve always …

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Born-Digital Special Collections / Renovating Descriptive Practice

Metadata for digital objects

November 26, 2013October 12, 2020 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers. It was initiated by Jonathan LeBreton of Temple, who noted the questions staff raised when describing voluminous …

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Identifiers / Renovating Descriptive Practice

First Scholars’ Contributions to VIAF: Greek!

November 25, 2013November 25, 2013 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

Contributors to the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) have generally been national libraries and other library agencies.  We have just loaded into VIAF the first set of personal names from …

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Multilingual WorldCat represented by translations

November 12, 2013April 30, 2014 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

Great works are translated—the cream of the world’s cultural and knowledge heritage is shared by being translated. And many of them are represented by bibliographic records in WorldCat. A group …

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OCLC Control Numbers – Lots of them; all public domain

September 23, 2013August 25, 2020 - by Jim Michalko

For the last few years I have been part of a group of OCLC staff charged with articulating data sharing practices that are consistent with the WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities …

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